The Sword & Shield of Consciousness

A Simple Question on Illegal Immigration

For those who support the millions of non-assimilating law breakers who infiltrate our country on a regular basis and believe Arizona’s pending law is the equivalent of a “Nazi regime”, I have one simple question: Do you also consider Customs and Immigration to be a Nazi regime, and should we therefore dismantle and remove the Customs and Immigration officials at international airports around the United States?

Disembark from the plane, then go through this process

For anyone who has traveled by plane internationally, you know that when you re-enter the United States you must wait in line to see an immigration officer (to determine where you were, why you traveled, what’d you do while in a foreign country, etc.) and then must wait in another line to see a customs official (to determine what you are bringing into the country, whether cash, goods, agriculture, animals, etc.). This process often feels like an interrogation of the country’s own citizens:

Then it’s off to the Customs officer, who reviews your “Declaration” about what you are bringing into the country. If you purchased more than $800 of goods, you must pay a tax right then and there, on your purchases. Your luggage is subject to full search if the officers want to see for themselves what you’ve brought with you.

Finally you are allowed into the airport lobby and are free to go about being a U.S. citizen. I FULLY SUPPORT THIS VITAL PROCESS and the officials conducting it are true patriots protecting us all.

So again, I ask you, you who support illegal trespass throughout the Southwestern United States: do you feel that U.S. citizens and other visitors who step off planes at airports should be free to just stroll on in to Los Angeles, New York, and other cities without having to show who they are or where they’ve been or what they’re carrying with them? Free to just step into a taxi and off they go? Or should they have to go through the Customs and Immigration process just described?

10 Responses

I don’t know about where you folks live, but in El Paso there are Border Patrol agents who screen everyone BEFORE they get on a plane. They must use some form of profiling system as not everyone is pulled over, only suspicious-looking types who they’re trained to identify. No-one “supports” illegal trespass in the Southwest. The Mexican border needs a lot more sealing, for sure, but the real issue is how to deal with those who’ve been here for many years, with American-born children, and regardless, are forced to live in the shadows. Any form of amnesty should only apply to them. Not future nor recent fence-jumpers.

Sorry Dave, but your argument has already been tried and failed when Ronald Reagan gave amnesty to a few million illegals. He knew he was wrong to do so and explained that all it amounted to was an invitation to millions more to infiltrate and hunker down until the next, bigger, amnesty – and boy was he right. Amnesty is the reward that leads to more of the same disaster, only with exponential numbers. If the folks you refer to don’t want to live in the shadows, then they should return to the sunlight from whence they came and they can live free. Godspeed, and goodbye to them all.

Ronald Reagan admitting he was wrong about anything, Sasoc? If you’re referring to the Simpson-Mazzoli chumbala, that doesn’t count. Please provide some reference material as I sure can’t find it. Amnesty and a TOTAL sealing of the border is the only practical solution at this time. The honest types will come forward and the criminals will choose to remain in the shadows, as they always do, regardless of where they’re from. They’re the ones we should be hunting down.

Just type “Reagan regrets 1986 Immigration Act” into a search engine and you’ll find plenty on it (perhaps “regret” is more accurate than “wrong”). Amnesty now would be a terrible mistake and merely repeat the last 25 years of invasion after Reagan’s mistake. It is a myth that illegal immigrants can’t be made to leave. They can, and they will, if Americans like the fine citizens of Arizona proudly reclaim their sovereignty and enforce the law. Oddly it is members of both parties, for different reasons, who indulge the notion that they are “here to stay”. Some Republicans purportedly like the cheap labor (pro business), while some Democrats are so choked on self-loathing that they seek the destruction of our culture once and for all. Either way, it can and should be reversed.

Most people in America aren’t against immigration; they’re just against illegal immigration. For example, like most of our ancestors, my mother’s parents were immigrants. They came through Ellis Island and followed the various legal steps required in order to establish themselves as true citizens of this country. The immigrants crossing the Mexican border, however, have absolutely no interest in following these legal protocols. Once they cross the border, they change their names and/or purchase social security numbers in an effort to conceal their true identities from the law. It is not uncommon for an illegal immigrant to purchase not one, but two or more social security numbers, just in case one is flagged. I have witnessed this crime with my own eyes. (One day, a supposedly legal immigrant was asked to give their social security card to a receptionist for a job application and an interview. When the receptionist happened to ask to see the card a second time, the immigrant mistakenly handed over a different social security card with the same name on it, but with a completely different set of numbers…)

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not against Hispanics. I have many Hispanic friends, but they either have green cards to work in the United States or have become legal citizens. They decided to follow the rule of law and work within the boundaries of our legal system. Unfortunately, many immigrants do not, and it is those particular individuals that we are most concerned about.

Now it seems that those who sympathize with illegal immigrants wish to hijack the discussion of reform by attacking the law recently imposed by the State of Arizona through protests and boycotts; a state mind you, that has been besieged with crime, drugs and an ever-increasing population of illegal immigrants. Don’t allow them this option. Speak out and take action. This is your country… fight for it.

In closing, I consider myself to be a bleeding-heart liberal: a Democrat. My ancestor, Roger Williams – the founder of Rhode Island and founder of the First Baptist Church in America, was one too; regarding the acceptance of different nationalities, cultures and religions as the vitality and lifeblood of any country. Nevertheless, I think that he would agree with me; that immigrants wishing to become legal citizens have not only the obligation, but the civil and legal responsibility to follow the rules of law established by any country in which they wish to become authentic citizens, just as our ancestors – both yours and mine – struggled so arduously and righteously to achieve.

Yes, “fight for it”. But how many even realize what is at stake? The notion that it is our culture and anglo-saxon heritage that creates the fertile ground for our great bounty is either not understood or not believed. And the Americans whose self-loathing inhibits this truth from reaching them would gladly surrender the most Golden Goose the world has ever known to a Mexican culture that has produced extreme poverty, mass violence, and corruption. Why are the illegals streaming into our country by the tens of millions? Because Mexican culture works? It obviously does not, so where is the assimilation into the culture that does work? To come here illegally, live off the legal grid as you describe in your comment, remit money outside the country, refuse to learn English, and call latino assimilation a “myth” is not only arrogant and insulting, it is flat out stupid. The reason they’ve come here is because it ISN’T like Mexico, but they’ll change that as fast as they can get away with. Finally the fine citizens of Arizona said “ENOUGH” and decided to fight the slow strangulation and degradation of their culture. For if such deterioration is allowed to continue, where will the wealth and political stability of America go? Look south for the answer.

Are you and Destructionist not aware that there is no legal venue available for many wishing to enter the U.S.? THERE IS NO LINE TO STAND IN! Thanks to the farcical USA Immigration Lottery, in any given year, someone from Chad is given immigration priority over someone who lives in Juarez and has a granny living in El Paso. We’ve created our own “illegal” problems by virtue of our idiotic policies. They wouldn’t have to be illegal if we smartened-up and for sure the majority wouldn’t end up being NYC cab-drivers, as does the rest of the “legal immigrant” population.

You would have me believe that a better “front door” on immigration would prevent 10 – 20 million illegals from Mexico from invading through the back door? Which is not to say we shouldn’t improve the immigration process. But you avoid the real issue: non-assimilation is cancer in the society. How would you solve this?

At last count, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, there were 11M illegals in the country. Non-assimilation, whether legal or not, has always been a problem. Many “legals” instruct their children not to stand up and recite the Pledge in the classroom. Here, we have a problem. More on this tomorrow, my friend. For now, a good-nite to all!
Regards.